ID: 700007773 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700007773	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Faun and His Family with a Slain Lion, A (painting (visual work); Lucas Cranach the Elder (German, 1472 - 1553) (German Artist...; about 1526; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 2003.100)

Note: A family of fauns is gathered in a forest clearing. Their finely rendered, luminous bodies contrast with the dense screen of foliage that both isolates and protects them from civilization, which appears in the distant landscape in the form of buildings on a rocky outcropping and a delicately painted city. A dead lion lies in the foreground in front of a hewn stone on which a faun sits holding a rod or club in his hand. Only the small detail of his pointed ears indicates that he is not human. He gazes at his female companion, who stands gracefully holding one child and leading another by the hand. The sensitive treatment throughout, from the lion's calligraphic hair and the figures' fluid contours to the dappled foliage and soft landscape, imparts a sense of union most manifest in the relationship of the figures and expressed in the baby's tender gesture toward the faun.

Titles:

Faun and His Family with a Slain Lion, A (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

The Satyr Family in a Landscape (C,U,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

painting (visual work) [300033618] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: about 1526

Creator Display:

Lucas Cranach the Elder (German, 1472 - 1553) (German Artist) [preferred,JPGM]

Cranach, Lucas, the Elder (German painter, draftsman, and printmaker, 1472-1553) [500115364]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500329598] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 2003.100

Display Materials: Oil on panel

	oil paint (paint) [300015050]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>)

	panel (wood by form) [300014657]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, plant material, <wood and wood by product>, wood (plant material), <wood by form or function>)

Dimensions: Unframed: 82.9 x 56.2 cm (32 5/8 x 22 1/8 in.); Framed: 100 x 73.3 x 3.8 x 8.6 cm (39 3/8 x 28 7/8 x 1 1/2 x 3 3/8 in.)

Cultures:

German (preferred)

General Subject:

religion and mythology (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	fauns [300386072]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), legendary beings) (AAT)

	families (kinship groups) [300055474]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), groups of people, social groups, kinship groups) (AAT)

	lions (species) [300310388]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Mammalia (class), Carnivora (order), Felidae (family), Panthera (genus)) (AAT)

	nudes (representations) [300189568]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, figures (representations)) (AAT)

Inscriptions: On the reverse: In pencil: "No. 9", "33" and old writing which has not yet been deciphered. Upper right corner: painted green and red circular (1 inch diam.) design (may be a collector's mark). Upper left: a small white label (modern) with "372" and the letter "R" beneath it. Labels for City of Manchester Art Gallery, Kunstmuseum Basel and Manchester City Art Gallery.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Faun and His Family with a Slain Lion, A	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
The Satyr Family in a Landscape	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

Subject: ....... [JPGM,VP]

Note:
English	..... [JPGM,VP]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)